# PENNTECH PAPERS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9035`
- **Case Number:** 03-1980-0015
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $3K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PENNTECH PAPERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE/CAUSE OF ACTION:                             AS INDICATED IN THE LITIGATION REPORT PENNTECH VIOL-    ATED ITS BOD5 & TSS EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS DURING MOST OF      THE MONTHS BETWEEN 10/77 & 3/80. AS DISCUSSED AT PAGES       20-22, THE EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS IN PENNTECH'S PERMIT ARE     BASED ON BEST ENGINEERING JUDGMENT. THE LIMITATIONS WHICH    WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSED BASED ON EPT GUIDELINES ARE SUB-     STANTIALLY LESS STRINGENT. THIS MAY AFFECT OUR SUCCESS IN    COLLECTING A SUBSTANTIAL CIVIL PLTY IF EQUITABLE DEFENSES    ARE RAISED.                                                      IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT PENNTECH IS IN A UNCER-     TAIN POSITION W/RESPECT TO THE NPDES PERMITTING PROCESS      BECAUSE THE STATE HAS EXTENDED PENNTECH'S PERMIT WHICH       EXPIRED IN 7/79, & BAT GUIDELINES HAVE NOT YET BEEN ISS-     UED. THIS MAY AFFECT PENNTECH'S WILLINGNESS TO AGREE TO      REMEDIAL CONST AS PART OF A CD. THE FOREGOING UNDERSCORES    THENEED TO INVOLVE THE STATE IN ANY STTLMNT NEG'S. THE       CASE OUGHT TO BE FILED AS EXPEDITIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE TO       AVIOD THE KIND OF DELAYS WHICH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM PENN-    TECH.                                                             AN ADDITIONAL VIOL OF THE CWA IS SUGGESTED BY THE       RESULTS OF AN 8/9/79, INSPECTION INDICATING THAT PENNTECH    HAS DISCHARGED POLLUTANTS THROUGH UNPERMITTED OUTFALLS       INTO THE CLARION RIVER. THESE DISCHARGES HAVE NEVER BEEN     SAMPLED & NO FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION WAS 

---
*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*